[mythtv-users] Help with a semi-busted hard drive (with all my recordings)

[Alexander Fisher]

On 2/5/06, Kristo Kriechbaum <klk+myth at robotics.caltech.edu> wrote:
> On Sunday 05 February 2006 7:33 am, Jay R. Ashworth wrote:
> > On Sat, Feb 04, 2006 at 09:33:48PM -0800, Kristo Kriechbaum wrote:
> > > So I was making some changes in my mythbox today, and I really screwed
> > > up.  I broke a surface mount capacitor on one of my hard drives.  I tried
> > > to resolder it back on, but it ended up breaking apart a bit.  This drive
> > > is (was?) part of an lvm group that has all our recordings, music, and
> > > video on it.
> > >
> > > The drive is a Seagate Barracuda 7200.7, 200Gb, model ST32000822A.
> > > Pictures detailing the damage are at
> > > http://robotics.caltech.edu/~klk/drive/
> >
> > Understand this: you're buying a new drive anyway.  There's noother
> > practical alternative.
> >
> > So, given that: buy the drive.  Hook the new one and the "broken" one
> > up, and see if you can use dd to copy the data off of the old one.
> > Even with the part gone, you might find yourself surprised, and it will
> > work.  If so, then you now have a drive to plug into your arrayasa
> > replacement, and you can then send the broken drive back.
> >
> > If not, as someone pointed out, you can always steal a logic board from
> > yet *another* drive in your array (assuming you have a second drive of
> > that size -- look for version numbers on the boards: if it's an *exact*
> > match -- which it will be if you bought them together, usually, then
> > you're ok) and put it on the "bad" drive long enough to copy from it to
> > the new drive.
> >
> > But you're *still* buying a new drive.  It's the price you pay.
> >
> > Now, since this isn't RAID, you *can* buy a *larger* new drive, a 400
> > or 500, if you can afford it.  LVM will let you grow your volumes into
> > the new space, after you copy the old data on; just create a new
> > partition.
>
> I have no problem with buying a new drive.  The problem is the "broken" one is
> not recognized at all by the bios when it is plugged in.  I don't have
> another drive like this to swap out the controller boards temporarily.  I
> found a 160G Barracuda, but the layout of the logic board, as well as some of
> the larger chips, is completely different.
>
> I also realize that the value of the capacitor is not critical.  But since
> there are no letters/numbers on it, I don't even have an idea of what is
> "reasonable".

Whats the IC its connected to?  Perhaps you could download a datasheet.